The Apple's Diary!

We started on a warm day. Breakfast at minsu was delivered from elsewhere and the morning mood started quite frustrating. The children were starting to fuss about the local food and kept wanting to just drink milk only. The hot weather didn't help to soothe the feeling so while we reached Sun Moon Lake as first stop, nobody was hyped enough. sun moon lake It was a pity because Sun Moon Lake was 4th in the world having the most beautiful cycling trail. I remembered a young colleague of mine, she went cycling around Sun Moon Lake while she was there. After the obligated tourist photo taking, we were driven to their information centre which provided some relief with the air conditioning. hot spot for photo taking they did this after seeing my annoyed face We stayed for a while in the cafeteria which sells one of the award winning coffee bean. But then, I wasn't in any mood for a cup of coffee, I held an ice honey drink while Jonathan ate his chocolate ice c...

We departed Fengjia at 9am  9.20am. One good point about getting your own driver was that we could stretch our meeting time a little. If we had gone by tour package, we would have been thrown daggers by many because we couldn't meet at stated timing. First stop was breakfast and guess where, it was at their wet market. Initially the driver wanted to bring us to eat at a local eatery selling noodles but they were closed on that day. So he brought us to 富贵市场. The name came upon because most of the better well-off wives would come to this market in the early days. our local breakfast Going to the wet market freaked out Jonathan. He didn't like it at all, because it was hot, it was wet (wet market), it was messy (we had motorcycle zooming into the market). I wouldn't blame him too because this would be the last place I would bring them for a meal. So when he started to fuss, the husband gave me dagger-eyes. Other than that, the food (dried noodles with ...

Day 2 - Flying Cow Ranch Rise and Shine... except we were all awaken by the strong sunlight at 4am! Yes.. we didn't realise that the sun rise was so early and thus, we didn't drawn the curtain the night before. The children were up and about by 6am. We dilly-dallied for quite a while before we left our room for breakfast and farm activities. That's our accommodation at the back Crossing the bridge to the restaurant The size of the ranch breakfast buffet not our usual breakfast all vegetarian dishes Honestly speaking, I have never been to the ranch before and thus was rather taken aback at the size of the ranch, because we walked a good 10-15 minutes before we got to the dining area. Secondly, it took us a while to get used to chinese instructions everywhere. Thirdly, we didn't quite expect an all vegetarian chinese breakfast at the ranch. But we were good, the children behaved at the dining area, eating whatever we thought they might ...